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Disruptive technology is the bearer of tremendous opportunity and equally a harbinger of obsolescence. Technology’s impact on society and business is substantial, if not underestimated. As technology continues to become part of everyday life, it becomes disruptive in how people communicate, work, and connect. The evolution of society and technology...

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There are two main problems in the U.S. economy: There are too few jobs Most of the jobs pay too little This state of affairs has left the most important customers in the U.S. economy--the formerly financially healthy middle class--starved for spending money. As any business executive will tell you,...

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Wilson Kriegel, formerly the top business executive at social-games maker OMGPOP, is taking a president and chief operating officer role at video-chat startup Paltalk. Zynga bought OMGPOP for $180 million earlier this year--a deal which rapidly soured, prompting Zynga to take a big writeoff. At Paltalk, Kriegel's going to work...

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I was delighted to learn today that Copyranter, a closely followed and extremely funny blogger about advertising, got a new job with Buzzfeed, the social-media content play of Jonah Peretti. I was less thrilled when, after quoting the official announcement of the move on B.I. Advertising, he threatened to...

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For Quora, the online question and answer forum populated by geeks and trivia devotees alike, the site is really only as good as the answers it provides. With much of the online consumer world moving to mobile (and Quora moving with it), the company is trying to tackle one question:...

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In 1914, a business executive named Henry Ford did a startling thing: He announced that he was going to more than double the wages he was paying his employees, from $2.34 to $5 a day--the equivalent of $120 a day in today's money. The country was as shocked by...

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As I've described frequently over the last few months, I had high hopes for Mitt Romney's economic plan. Alas, until very recently--yesterday, in fact--Romney's stated economic solution has strongly suggested that he either doesn't understand what's wrong with the U.S. economy, or, worse, doesn't care (as long he gives himself...

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made a big hire yesterday, bringing in her former Google colleague Henrique De Castro as COO. De Castro doesn't come cheap. Mayer and Yahoo had to agree to pay him $62 million over four years to get him to leave Google, where De Castro was a loyal...

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Newspapers might be dying, but there is no shortage of companies who want to get into the publishing business. Or the blogging business, at least. Quora plans to announce Wednesday that it’s rolling out a new blogging platform, moving the strictly question and answer site into new territory. “We’re not...

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is not the only photo-loving business executive upset by Instagram in recent weeks. While Dorsey stopped posting photos from his Instagram after Facebook reportedly beat his Twitter to an acquisition of Instagram, Apple Senior Vice President quit his Instagram for another reason: Android. A reader noticed...

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If you’re a music historian or just love music, you need to check out a set of interviews now available via streaming from the Library of Congress. The conversations were taped in the mid to late 1980s by Joe Smith, a former DJ and retired music business executive, and run...

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Jeff Bezos once was a very precocious child who loved science and reading, particularly science fiction. Jeff Bezos is now a business executive who just spent $775 million on a robot company. If you had asked an 11-year-old Jeff Bezos to let his imagination run wild and think of...

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Given Apple's commitment to secrecy, it's hard to get a good sense of what is going on inside the company. But in the opinion of one respected industry observer, Paul Kedrosky, some of Apple's recent missteps can tell us a lot about that. In an interview with Bloomberg West yesterday,...

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What is more important than your reputation? For most individuals and businesses, the answer to that is simple: "not much."Our increasingly networked world has only boosted the importance of reputation. On the internet, the investment often seen today in PR, social media and reputation management solutions highlights this.But is reputation...

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Travel search startup Hipmunk is launching its first paid product today — Hipmunk Business Class, which offers extra features designed for assistants, office managers, and other folks who have to book trips for multiple businesses travelers. CEO Adam Goldstein tells me he originally launched the site based on his own...

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Behind every well-known powerful man or woman is a shadow operative making sure everything runs smoothly. For Mark Zuckerberg, it's Anikka Fragodt, his executive assistant that's been around for most of Facebook's lifetime. But for Sheryl Sandberg, it was Libby Leffler, now strategic partner manager at Facebook. She served as a...

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Google chairman and former CEO isn’t mincing any words, saying that Google’s Android mobile operating system is in a war with Apple’s iOS … and it’s winning. Refreshing honesty from an executive, or hubris? Schmidt made the statement in an interview with Bloomberg, published this morning. He referenced Android’s massive...

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Looking to quote someone’s post from Quora? The company announced Monday that users will now be able to use embed codes from the site for content they wish to quote, making it easier to spread Quora around the web. “Folks with a lot of drive and determination will do this...

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Guuuuurrrrl, the Valley is on fayah today. In a huge wave of announcements, we saw a bevy of businesses from the Bay getting fierce funding deals. Trust: From Mountain View to Redwood City, from Los Gatos to not-so-sunny San Francisco, our Bay Area startups were snatching term sheets and...

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Unlike a lot of crowdsourced social media sites, Quora usually manages to bring an air of legitimacy to its postings. It’s the site where CEOs post background info on their companies, and former employees give the inside scoop on their industries. But as the site continues to grow, how can it keep that...